Strange behaviour with my internet explorer

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by nikos (English words from a Greek thinking brain) on Tuesday, 20-Jan-2009 16:31:15

Hi.
For some weeks now my internet explorer 6 started behaving very strange.
First of all when using hal from dolphin in some websites such as the zone it doesn't let me to click some of the links for example the home link or the go button after choosing board category.

However with jaws it works fine.
Also some of the sounds on the zone don't playh such as the quicknote sounds or the highlow sounds but the news sound and the keno sounds play fine lol. This is very strange.
I think i got a spyware or something but i am not sure.
Everytime i scan my computer with superantispyware it finds something and i choose to delete it but the same things keep appearing when i do a new scan.
My brother once installed on my computer something called zango to watch videos or something but this program didn't uninstall correctly from my computer and one of the spyware i find is zango. So it might be because of that that i have all these problems but i don't know how to remove it and make my internet explorer working correctly. Even after disabling all third party addons it doesn't work as it should.
Sorry for the long post and i hope you can help me.
Thanks

Post 2 by rat (star trek rules!) on Tuesday, 20-Jan-2009 19:25:38

hmmm, not sure what can be done there really, have someone help you remove anything in safe mode maybe?

Post 3 by Brooke (I just keep on posting!) on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2009 10:09:23

Maybe try a different spyware program to see if that cleans things up? What antivirus program do you use?

Post 4 by rat (star trek rules!) on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2009 11:52:38

that can help too, you should have more than one anti-spyware program on your machine anyways since not one of them is perfect.

Post 5 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2009 15:28:24

Won't they clash? Or is that just antivirus?

Post 6 by nikos (English words from a Greek thinking brain) on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2009 16:51:18

I have got avast free and superantispyware on my computer.

What other antispyware shall i use? Is windows defender good? Can i have more than one at the same time?

Post 7 by Brooke (I just keep on posting!) on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2009 22:35:17

Yeah, you can have more than one anti-spyware program. I've just started using one called MalwareBytes, and it seems to be working okay. There's also Spybot S&D, but I've never had much luck with that one.

Post 8 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2009 23:34:03

Windows Defender is crap. I wouldn't depend on it to get rid of anything.

Post 9 by The Lil Dark Piggy (This site is so "educational") on Friday, 23-Jan-2009 8:53:06

Nod32 all the way! It's caught quite a bit of stuff. I'm using Nod32 Smart security.